Caroline Chiles

Caroline Chiles, MD

Caroline Chiles MD is a Professor of Radiology at Wake Forest University Department of Radiology in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She graduated from MIT with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1976, and from Duke University School of Medicine in 1980. She completed a residency in Diagnostic Imaging at Stanford University in 1984, and then returned to Duke for a fellowship in cardiothoracic imaging. She subsequently joined the faculty of Duke University Department of Radiology, leaving in 1990 to start a teleradiology company. Dr. Chiles was faculty at the Medical College of Virginia, prior to joining the faculty of Wake Forest University Department of Radiology in 1994.

Dr. Chiles was a site PI for the National Lung Screening Trial, and has been involved in multiple secondary analyses of NLST data since the primary results were published in 2011. Her clinical and research interests include lung cancer screening and lung cancer imaging. She is currently PI of an NIH R01 grant, Implementation of Smoking Cessation Services within NCI NCORP Community Sites with Organized Lung Cancer Screening Programs

She serves as the Thoracic Imaging Chair for ECOG-ACRIN, and is a member of the NCI Thoracic Malignancy Steering Committee. She is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Society of Thoracic Radiology, and has been a frequent lecturer at the Radiological Society of North America and American Roentgen Ray Society annual meetings. She has authored more than 100 journal articles and 27 book chapters, has co-edited one textbook and served as guest editor for 3 journals. Dr. Chiles is currently on the editorial boards of the Journal of Thoracic Imaging and Translational Lung Cancer Research.